The Good Life Flashcards
It is where Socrates takes the position of Moral Life to an extreme. He argues that it is much better to suffer wrong than to do it.
Gorgias
It is where Plato argues that the morally good person, he claims, enjoys a sort of inner harmony, whereas the wicked person, no matter how rich and powerful, is disharmonious.
Republic
2 philosophers that gave absolute priority to being a virtuous person..
- Socrates
- Plato
The first ancient Greek philosopher that declared that what makes life worth living is that we can experience pleasure.
Epicurus
The view that pleasure is the good, or to put it another way, that pleasure is what makes life worth living.
Hedonism
It is someone who is especially appreciative of food and drink.
Epicure
5 others schools of thought
- Materialism
- Hedonism
- Stoicism
- Theism
- Humanism
It is where the comfort and wealth are the highest goals.
Materialism
It is where life is very much limited and we indulge ourselves with pleasure.
Hedonism
It is where we feel indifferent with what is happening.
Stoicism
It is the ultimate happiness is communion with God.
Theism
It is where human beings have rights to shape their own lives.
Humanism
A great Greek thinker that views the good life in a more comprehensive way.
Aristotle
7 objectives of the Fulfilled Life
- Virtue
- Health
- Prosperity
- Friendship
- Respect
- Luck
- Engagement
They must be morally virtuous.
Virtue
They should enjoy good health and reasonably long life.
Health
They should be comfortably off.
Prosperity
They must have good friends.
Friendship
They should enjoy the respect of others.
Respect
They need good luck and any life can be rendered unhappy by tragic loss or misfortune.
Luck
They must exercise their uniquely human abilities and capacities.
Engagement
It means to be intellectually virtuous.
Eudaimonia
It is connecting to what constitutes virtuous and vicious behavior.
Phronesis
4 Spectrum of worst to better
- Vicious
- Incontinent
- Continent
- Virtuous
